On this week’s episode we chat with Sari González and Becka Koritz – co-founders of Radical Learning – about unschooling and alternative models of education. Sari and Becka are mums to neurodivergent unschoolers, youth rights advocates, and agile learning facilitators who challenge conventional education and parenting. Through their business, Radical Learning, and their podcast, Radical Learning Talks, they support parents and educators in unlearning control-based approaches to education and embracing trust, consent, and youth agency - especially when supporting neurodivergent kids.
On this episode we cover:
- How Becka and Sari think about neurodivergence.
- Becka and Sari’s paths to alternative education.
- What’s the difference between homeschooling and unschooling?
- Concepts in unschooling, including de-schooling, consent-based learning, and understanding how power manifests in mainstream ideas of teaching and learning.
- How can we teach our kids if we aren’t teachers?
- Navigating our inner ‘Mrs. Trunchbull’ and the internal work of de-schooling.
- Neurodivergence and learning; honouring our unique talents and skills.
- Unpacking the concept of ‘resilience’.
- The Shift Retreat from Radical Learning
Sari and Becka are coming to us from Mexico, so listeners may occasionally hear the sounds of nature in the background!
Connect with Sari and Becka through their podcast, their website, or their Instagram @radical_learning.
Plus, books that Marie recommends in this space:
- Unschooling To University: Relationships matter most in a world crammed with content by Judy Arnall
- Homeschool Gone Wild: Inspired Learning Through Living by Karla Marie Williams
- College Without High School: A Teenager’s Guide by Blake Boles
- The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson
- Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards
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